• @TheAlbatross
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    1315 months ago

    Don’t really matter until he stops sending them bombs and billions tho innit

    • @100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world
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      135 months ago

      He already restricted visas for extremist settlers in the west bank. Making all further aid dependent on curbing the fuckery in this area is probably the way to go. It’s pretty unlikely that the US can do more than delay strikes by Israel when it comes to further actions in Gaza, they don’t have nearly as much control over them as everyone makes it seem.

      • Alien Nathan Edward
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        He already restricted visas for extremist settlers in the west bank

        I’ll tell that to that mother in Rafah who’s trying to scrape what’s left of her kid into a bucket, having gone there because Israel told her it was the safe place to evacuate to after she followed Israeli orders to evacuate to Khan Younis and was bombed there as well…

        • @100_percent_a_bot@lemmy.world
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          15 months ago

          Why would they do that? The UN is like 50 Muslim countries, pretty much all of them theocracratic dictatorships. They usually vote as a block against Israel which is pretty bs considering there is one jewish state with one voice.

      • livus
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        They do though. As well as essentially paying them to do it, they sit on the UN Security Council and veto everything raised against this genocide.

  • Alien Nathan Edward
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    635 months ago

    There seems to be this thing where the mainstream media tries to appease anti-murder voters by insisting that Joe “I Am A Zionist” Biden is really trying hard to find a solution to this and he’ll get there eventually, but in the mean time his hands are tied and he has to keep picking up the tab for Israel. But like, really guys, any minute now he’s gonna stop because secretly he agrees with you that this is wrong. He just can’t stop now. Like, he could. He could just stop sending them money. But he can’t. But he will soon. But not now. Because he can’t.

    • @Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works
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      Doesn’t congress send the money? Also although I think Zionism is inherently flawed thinking, but you can be a zionist and not support genocide. Nothing about being a Zionist implies the state must grow or do anything in particular other than being a Jewish ethnostate.

      A two state solution was and is the only way there will be a modicum of peace, and no, it will not be fair.

        • @dubyakay@lemmy.ca
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          75 months ago

          Don’t alter the headline. He bypasses Congress by not sending aid but rather by selling the weapons. Israel is paying for it, even if it’s wholesale prices on ammunition components.

            • @HandBreadedTools@lemmy.world
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              15 months ago

              It’s literally not, like actually. Google it.

              That said, dude didn’t illegally bypass Congress, they gave the president that authority in the 70s and expanded upon it under bush. I don’t agree with it, I think he shouldn’t have done it and that it shouldn’t even be possible. It is absolutely something to legitimately critique Biden for, but it is not bypassing congress in some loophole thing.

              • @mathemachristian@lemm.ee
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                25 months ago

                It literally is, like materially. My point wasnt that he is doing something illegal, my point is that he is aiding Israel by giving them bombs at discount prices.

      • @rhamzeh@lemmy.ml
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        The existence of that ethnostate was built on the nakba and the continued subjugation of Palestinians and their Jewish allies.

        Want an ethnostate? Go take it from Germany. God knows they deserve it at least.

        Zionism requires the wiping of a culture and people to replace it with another. There is no form of Zionism which is not genocidal.

      • NoneOfUrBusiness
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        Zionism needs a Nakba and an Apartheid state, otherwise it wouldn’t be Zionism. So no, being Zionist means in one way or another supporting genocide.

  • @holycrap@lemm.ee
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    335 months ago

    Is he frustrated with Israel or with the political capital this is costing him?

  • @RedditWanderer@lemmy.world
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    305 months ago

    These titles always make me imagine Biden waking up one morning in presidential pyjamas saying: oh man, really frustrates me! Anyways…

  • @rxbudian@lemmy.ca
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    205 months ago

    It’s like telling someone not to gamble while giving him money/credit for the slot machine

  • @dan42O@infosec.pub
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    195 months ago

    Strongly worded responses don’t mean anything. I’m looking for threats, nay, just complete cease of any type of support.

  • @febra@lemmy.world
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    125 months ago

    All for the camera of course. Behind the scenes he doesn’t give two craps about whatever Israel does.